What I've seen in the past is that the rogue party can register old people or those groups known to avoid voting in the past and therefore acquire valid private keys. The few that want to vote would ask for the private key and a new one would be provided to them. The other topic is private key interception, copying them in transit to the recipient. You are checking through the pub keys who has voted and then injecting the votes on election night when it becomes obvious who isn't going to vote on that event. Voting in presence with a picture taken would solve these identity issues. There would always exist some fraud, just difficult to scale into larger numbers.

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Den Yellek 1 year ago
Yes all valid concerns. Part of your first point is mitigated by the need to link private keys to tax returns or other documents such that just issuing new keys would not be possible and would make fraud obvious. And presumably it would not be possible to intercept private keys in transit as they should never be transmitted. However even when voting with your own private keys voting at home or under the watchful eye of someone else will yield different results than voting in a private ballot box. I am sure there are many people who lie to their significant other about their voting habits.